Ohthankgodforthat.
I have been so stressed out about this phone call as I could only imagine that Sup had something awful and huge to relate to me that couldn't possibly be done on email... but he didn't at all! In fact, all he wanted to say was stop being so repetitive :) I can do that. He wouldn't mind seeing my intro again with new refs and hasn't looked at the concl I sent him yet but is sure all is fine. I can end him any chapters that are realyl worrying me but other than that my stabilisers are off and I am to finish it alone and deal with the fallout in my viva.
And we tallked about examiners. I am terrified about this type of conversation as the viva scares the pants off me, and I never know what my reaction should be when names are suggested. I am bizarrely pleased that they have approached someone who is an up and coming name in my field, rather than the profs they were talking about before as I will be less likely to shit myself, and really it makes no odds to me or my CV who does it as I am not likely to be an academic. They are actively seeking people who don't know much about my field of work... I don't know if this is because my thesis is shite or because it is so multidisciplinary. I really do jabber on sticking my fingers into lots of pies but don't really commit to any one, so the big names who are (ahem) more disciplined would lay into me about any one of these things and I would be like a rabbit in the headlights.
I will be like that anyways.
Anyway. That is FINE. Fine. Fine.
Must finishing editing this chapter. At the mo I don't see why I shouldn't aim to complete a chapter a day. This would mean I will finish around, er, the end of next week seeing as am on chapter three (of eight) today. Hehe, so no not likely (is it?!), let's go for the 20th Dec. Woah. That still seems crackers. Gosh. Well, anyway, am not aiming for a deadline like that, my deadline is the 31st. I am, however, aiming to do a chapter a day, or two days if I am completely stuck.
x J
I have been so stressed out about this phone call as I could only imagine that Sup had something awful and huge to relate to me that couldn't possibly be done on email... but he didn't at all! In fact, all he wanted to say was stop being so repetitive :) I can do that. He wouldn't mind seeing my intro again with new refs and hasn't looked at the concl I sent him yet but is sure all is fine. I can end him any chapters that are realyl worrying me but other than that my stabilisers are off and I am to finish it alone and deal with the fallout in my viva.
And we tallked about examiners. I am terrified about this type of conversation as the viva scares the pants off me, and I never know what my reaction should be when names are suggested. I am bizarrely pleased that they have approached someone who is an up and coming name in my field, rather than the profs they were talking about before as I will be less likely to shit myself, and really it makes no odds to me or my CV who does it as I am not likely to be an academic. They are actively seeking people who don't know much about my field of work... I don't know if this is because my thesis is shite or because it is so multidisciplinary. I really do jabber on sticking my fingers into lots of pies but don't really commit to any one, so the big names who are (ahem) more disciplined would lay into me about any one of these things and I would be like a rabbit in the headlights.
I will be like that anyways.
Anyway. That is FINE. Fine. Fine.
Must finishing editing this chapter. At the mo I don't see why I shouldn't aim to complete a chapter a day. This would mean I will finish around, er, the end of next week seeing as am on chapter three (of eight) today. Hehe, so no not likely (is it?!), let's go for the 20th Dec. Woah. That still seems crackers. Gosh. Well, anyway, am not aiming for a deadline like that, my deadline is the 31st. I am, however, aiming to do a chapter a day, or two days if I am completely stuck.
x J
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